Acting credits
16
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
David Brinkley
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.7
Moderate attention
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Movies: 10Series: 6
TMDB ID: 548681
IMDb ID: nm0109604
Known for: Acting
Born: July 10, 1920
Died: June 11, 2003
Age: 82
Place of birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1949 - 2025
Years active: 77
Average TMDB rating: 7.14
Wikidata: Q766880
Also known as
David McClure Brinkley
Biography
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with David Brinkley.
6.4
Breakdown: 1975
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2025 Movie
7.5
Agnelli
as Self (voice)
2017 Movie
7.2
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2014 Movie
7.0
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage)
2013 Movie
7.3
4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997 Movie
5.8
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Self - Host
1997 Movie
5.8
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
1996 Movie
7.3
Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
1988 Movie
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self
1976 Movie
6.3
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with David Brinkley.
